Overview
Andreas Georgiou joined the University of Exeter Business School in February 2023 as a Lecturer in Sustainable Entrepreneurship (E&R). He holds a PhD and a MRes in Management Studies from ESADE Business School, as well as a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business. In 2022, he held a visiting research academic position for 3 months at Oxford Brookes Business School and its Centre for Business, Society and Global Challenges.
Andreas currently explores social and sustainable forms of entrepreneurship and organizing, with an emphasis on their emergence, their internal dynamics and their societal and environmental impact. He is also interested in the role of mainstream firms and other organizations towards more developed, sustainable and resilient regions. His research has received funding by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (250.000 €) and by the ESADE Foundation (covering PhD tuition fees and living expenses). He has presented his work at several international conferences and has published in leading academic journals, such as Organization Theory and European Management Journal.
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Research
Research interests
- Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Community-based Enterprises
- Cooperatives
- Sustainable Development
- Business-Community Relationships
- Institutional Theory
Andreas’ research lies at the intersection of communities, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Using mainly an institutional perspective, Andreas is interested in how hybrid organizations, such as community-based enterprises, cooperatives and social enterprises, balance competing goals, thrive, contribute to community development and resilience, and sustain the engagement of their members and followers. In such endeavors, he puts a lot of emphasis on place and materiality. When it comes to mainstream business, he works on business-community relationships and firms’ role towards more developed, sustainable and resilient regions. Methodologically speaking, Andreas usually follows qualitative methods.
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Publications
Journal articles
Georgiou A, Arenas D (2023). Community in Organizational Research: a Review and an Institutional Logics Perspective.
Organization Theory,
4(1), 263178772311531-263178772311531.
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Community in Organizational Research: a Review and an Institutional Logics Perspective
More than a decade ago, Thornton and colleagues added community to the inter-institutional system and argued that the community logic shapes individual and organizational behavior, determines organizing principles, and influences community–organization relationships. In justifying this addition and defining the ideal type, they drew mostly upon the literature on local communities and organizations. However, the increasing relevance of other types of communities to organization studies necessitates a re-examination and further specification of this framework. This article starts with a review of 172 papers from highly ranked organization and management journals over the last 30 years and summarizes insights on four types of communities for which discussion has flourished: communities of place, of practice, of users, and of firms. This is followed by pattern matching to explore whether these four types follow the initial description of the community logic. We find four variants of the community logic, one for each type of community. We show that all the reviewed types organize around a common boundary, which yields a new definition of the community logic. This commonality also offers scope for comparative research and reconceptualization of community–organization relationships. Furthermore, by specifying the organizing principles that vary, we extend previous research and explicate the main underpinnings of community organizing. The paper ends by suggesting avenues for future research that further embrace an institutional logics perspective on communities.
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Georgiou A, Murillo D (2023). From strangers to social collectives? Sensemaking and organizing in response to a pandemic. European Management Journal, 41(4), 621-633.
Yter M, Murillo D, Georgiou A (2022). Bounded Solidarity as an Asset for Public Health Care Intervention.
Qual Health Res,
32(3), 440-452.
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Bounded Solidarity as an Asset for Public Health Care Intervention.
The relationship between social capital and public health has been extensively analyzed. However, not much has been written about the formation of social capital among citizens and public health workers in times of a pandemic. Our aim is to analyze social capital development through the prism of bounded solidarity and seek its manifestations toward public health workers. A qualitative self-administered survey was used to analyze what actions, practices, attitudes, and reasons inspired citizens to behave as they did with respect to public health workers during the first weeks of lockdown under the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents, mostly from European countries, reveal that citizens aimed to prevent the collapse of the public health system through reinforcing trust toward institutions, legitimizing health care personnel expertise, practicing reciprocity and altruism, giving recognition to public health workers, and providing them with means. Finally, recommendations for public health communication on risks and crises are discussed.
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Chapters
Georgiou A (2022). Local Communities as Cultural Entrepreneurs: a Methodological Reflection on the Study of Community-Based Enterprises. In Ratten V (Ed)
Cultural Entrepreneurship New Societal Trends, Springer Nature, 85-93.
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Local Communities as Cultural Entrepreneurs: a Methodological Reflection on the Study of Community-Based Enterprises
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Teaching
Andreas’ teaching interests include entrepreneurship, strategy, sustainability management, organization & management theory, business & society and qualitative research methods. His teaching aims to enhance critical and analytical thinking, inspire discussions and meaningful interactions and develop a community of playful learning. He is currently working towards Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Modules
2023/24
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